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In fiscal 2008, the last full fiscal year before Pres. Obama took office, Defense Dept. spending was $634,152,610,000 in constant 2012 dollars. In fiscal 2012, it was $650,869,000,000 -- an increase of $16,716,390,000. That is a real increase of 2.568 percent.
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Defense Department Spending
Up 2.568 Percent Under Obama
CNSNews.com
Over the past ten fiscal years, inflation-adjusted Defense Department spending has increased by approximately 54 percent, according to Treasury Department data.
Real Defense Department spending increased not only under President George W. Bush -- in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and during the simultaneous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- but also under President Barack Obama a decade after the Sept. 11 attacks and after the Iraq war had ended.
In fiscal 2002, which started on Oct. 1, 2001 -- three weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks -- Defense Department spending was $423,856,810,000 in constant 2012 dollars. Ten years later, in fiscal 2012, Defense Department spending was $650,869,000,000 in 2012 dollars.
Thus, from fiscal 2002 to fiscal 2012, Defense Department spending increased by $227,012,190,000 in constant 2012 dollars -- or by 53.558 percent.
In fiscal 2008, the last full fiscal year before President Obama took office, Defense Department spending was $634,152,610,000 in constant 2012 dollars. In fiscal 2012, it was $650,869,000,000 -- an increase of $16,716,390,000. That is a real increase of 2.568 percent.
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Editor's Note: So, if the "sequester is supposed to cut 2.4 percent from our total spending, if, in fact, they are across the board cuts, then the Defense Department would receive more in budgetary funding after the sequester than it did in 2008; a 0.168 percent increase in its budget over the budget that was in place when Mr. Obama took office...So, where is this devastation of our Defense Department that the Obama Administration is floating????
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